re: Spinoff Thread: Why not UAB?

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UAB is a top tier academic school


Other than the Med school, it's a glorified Community College.

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YOU ARE WRONG!!

You are as big of a moron as the person who started this thread. Everything you posted is idiotic and nonsense. Maybe something you wish . . . but is not based in fact.

With a degree from both Alabama and UAB, I can tell you all three top Universities in this state are top tier. Heck, I'd be proud if I had a degree from Auburn - a very fine institution.

Geez dude.

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YOU ARE WRONG!!

You are as big of a moron as the person who started this thread. Everything you posted is idiotic and nonsense. Maybe something you wish . . . but is not based in fact.

With a degree from both Alabama and UAB, I can tell you all three top Universities in this state are top tier. Heck, I'd be proud if I had a degree from Auburn - a very fine institution.

Geez dude.

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A degree is a piece of paper, unless it is from a Ivy League school, Michigan, Stanford, ect. Those open a lot more doors. That being said, UAB is a commuter school. And from the outside looking in a degree from UA or AU does carry more weight than UAB. But then again, it does depend on your major and what you do with said degree.

There are literally twenty or thirty other schools that the SEC would consider before UAB. It isn't like the conference is desperate and needs to expand. If the SEC can't get two schools out of the top 5-10 candidates it will stay put.

They aren't even good at basketball.

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No wonder Paul Bryant, Jr. put the kabosh on giving UAB athletics any more $$$. shite, they can't even afford to maintain what they have now.

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Not very accurate. UAB athletics could likely be decent and self-supporting if UAT did not purposely thwart them and try to keep them down.

Jimbo Fisher had agreed to coach UAB before FSU and it was for less money than they were paying Watson Brown, the current/former coach. However, Bryant Jr did not want to have to compete with UAB.

Bama is the reason UAB sucks. Plain and simple.

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CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer
'Little Bear' Bryant crosses line again in denying UAB
Dec. 26, 2006
0 | Comments A ghost from the grave is running the Alabama football program ... and running the program at UAB into the dirt.

Oh, wait. That's no ghoul. It's not Bear Bryant, who died in 1983.

It's his son, Paul Bryant Jr.



Neil Callaway wasn't exactly UAB's top choice. (Getty Images)
Little Bear wouldn't return messages from CBS SportsLine.com, so this will just have to be said without a rebuttal: Paul Bryant Jr., with a murky background and clear conflict of interest, has no business exerting influence over the football program at UAB.

We'll get to Little Bear's background in a minute, but for now, understand something. The UAB football program just made the most dreadful hire of the offseason, hiring someone with questionable experience and character. His name is Neil Callaway, the offensive coordinator at Georgia, which you might have noticed was horrible this season on offense. The last thing Callaway did of note was plead guilty to DUI charges in 2003.

This is the new UAB coach. He's a lousy choice. Which is apparently what Little Bear wanted.

Little Bear sits on the University of Alabama Board of Trustees. From there, he wields all sorts of authority over Alabama and its state step-sister, UAB. Little Bear, who once gave $10 million to the Crimson Tide athletics department, is close friends with Alabama AD Mal Moore, who keeps his job despite a proven inability to pick a quality football coach.

What happens to Alabama football, however, is not our concern. Bear Bryant Sr. built the Crimson Tide into the South's most fearsome franchise, and if his boy tears it all the way down, well, there is symmetry in that.

What has happened this month to UAB, however, is an outrage. Essentially, Little Bear's Board of Trustees blocked UAB from hiring the football coach it wanted. Twice. And the second time, Little Bear's Board stopped UAB from hiring the coach it wanted because, presumably, the coach UAB wanted -- Jimbo Fisher -- might also be wanted by Alabama.

Ugly, but that's the deal, based on SportsLine.com conversations with sources close to the situation.

After being blocked by the Board of Trustees in its quest to promote assistant coach Pat Sullivan, who became head coach at Samford, UAB turned to LSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher. UAB and Fisher agreed on basic contractual terms, with half of Fisher's annual UAB salary -- ballpark: $600,000 -- to be subsidized by private boosters.

UAB was going to get the coach it wanted, a coach whose rumored arrival already was waking up the comatose UAB football program -- yet would have been on the hook for less salary than ex-coach Watson Brown, who made $375,000. It was perfect.

Little Bear's Board of Trustees said no. You want to know why? So do I, but Little Bear wouldn't return my messages. So here's the theory I'm working on, a theory based on conversations with multiple sources with a vested interest in UAB football:

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Alabama AD Mal Moore, who keeps his job despite a proven inability to pick a quality football coach.

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Kills the credibility of the author, in retrospect.

And like a fly on shite...

If anyone knew a smidgen about the UA BOT they would quit suggesting that they are "preventing" UAB football from having success. Until an athletic program shows it can win, they're are not going to give a dime they can't come up with on their own. It is why baseball has floundered from one of the best in the SEC to what it is now. And it is why softball and gymnastics have gotten help. Because they've found a way to put a successful product on the field.

Seriously? No